Former PM of Israel calls events ‘concerted and meticulous attempt at ethnic cleansing' against Palestinians
The Israeli army entered Qusra after days of a settler siege on Palestinian homes in the area. Photograph: Alaa Badarneh/EPA
Israeli troops have forced two Palestinian families to leave their besieged West Bank homes, the day after a top Israeli commander personally promised he would end a violent settler campaign to drive them out.
Israeli soldiers also took over eight other (…)

Q&A: STUDENT ACTIVISM ON American campuses in response to the war in Gaza has become a national debate over where to draw the line between political dissent and antisemitism.
Even as many universities have moved to restrict, disperse or discipline protest activity, demonstrations — and the arguments about how to describe them — have continued, raising questions about free speech, campus safety and whether criticism of Israel is being conflated with anti-Jewish hatred.
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Far-right movements have come to power in numerous countries across the region. They are linked to Trumpism ; resisting them requires the broadest possible coordination of these resistance movements at both local and regional levels.
At the end of 2022, I published an article in this very column entitled : ‘Latin America : The far right is already amongst us'.[[Huella del Sur 16 January 2023 “América latina : la ultraderecha está entre nosotros” : (…)

Cinq ans après la chute de Kaboul et la prise de pouvoir par les talibans, la chercheuse de Human Rights Watch, Fereshta Abbasi, dresse un bilan très sombre du quotidien des Afghans, entre transgression des droits fondamentaux, détention arbitraire, torture et disparitions forcées.
Qui se souvient encore de ce mois d'août 2021 durant lequel l'annonce de la chute de Kaboul, puis de la prise de pouvoir par les talibans, avait sonné comme une déflagration à travers le monde ? L'Afghanistan, (…)

Up to 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta late last month, an event which triggered headlines around the world. Among them were people from sub-Saharan countries such as Sudan and Ivory Coast, and they have now gathered on a beach on the north-eastern edge of this Spanish enclave in Africa. Though the authorities are not yet actively trying to expel these migrants, the local temporary reception centre is full and cannot accommodate them. As a result, they are forced to survive in (…)